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UV Detecting Beads

By Janice VanCleave

Beads with a special dye that changes color when exposed to UV light, but reverts back to orgiginal color when UV light is removed.

Pony beads that contain dye molecules that changes from white to a specific color when exposed to ultraviolet light are called UV Bead or photochromic beads.   Ultraviolet radiation (also called UV light) is a type of  light energy also called electromagnetic radiation. The only light energy that can be seen is called “visible light.” […]

Filed Under: Physics Tagged With: Solar Beads, UV radiation

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